Dimensions

Image Dimensions: 10.9 x 17.6 cmSupport Dimensions: 24.0 x 31.6 cm

The following untitled verse on a separate letterpress page by Lewis Morris accompanies the plate Early Spring-Time:

This is the hour, the day,The time, the season sweet.Quick! hasten, laggard feet,Brook not delay;Love flies, youth passes, Maytide will not last;Forth, forth, while yet ‘tis time, before the spring is past.

This is the time of song.From many a joyous throat,Mute all the dull year long,Soars love’s clear note;Summer is dumb, and faint with dust and heat;This is the mirthful time when every sound is sweet.